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Octopus Fan Club - Discounted energy from your local wind turbine (when it's spinning!)
https://www.octopusenergygeneration.com/fan-club/ Fascinating concept but sadly incompatible with the smarter Solar tariffs.
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Investing in a small GivEnergy battery to access Intelligent Flux
Greetings, I’ve long aargued against batteries for low import households…the advent of the Intelligent Flux tariff has prompted a revisit of the numbers, despite the 1550 kWh annual import. As the owner of a SolarEdge system, adding a AC coupled GivEnergy 2.6kW battery would cost ~£2K including AC/DC controller. The goal…
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Solaredge with Home Assistant
Hi, I think I've seen at least one reference on here from people using Home Assistant to tweak their Solaredge. I'd be interested in any pointers, and maybe in sharing ideas if I get things running. Where I am at the moment is I have HA running on a Raspberry Pi, and have installed and configured the "Solaredge Modbus…
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Solar Battery Plans - enough?
I have 3.24KWp solar system consisting of 12 x 270w PV panels. When they were installed in 2017, a battery wasn't recommended. I'm now planning to get a battery installed. I've gone for 6kwh because, at £4.5k installed, it'll be paid for by a recent windfall. And it was recommended by the installers. Now I'm thinking - is…
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Insulating Eaves of a loft conversion - Have I messed up?
Hi guys, Have an existing loft conversion that has an uninsulated eves in one side for storage with a small hatch on the purlin wall for access. The Purlin wall is insulated, but the small door seem to let in cold air. I want to use the eves for storage, but its not insulated and gets very dusty as this side of the roof is…
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Solar install this week
Hi,My solar install is going ahead this week. What paperwork / documentation will I need from the installer to get registered with my energy supplier (Octopus) for SEG payments?In the meantime, I assume it's just a case of use it, or lose it for any solar generation until registered for SEG payments (may take up to 4-6…
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EV charging using Solar with Zappi - is it worth it?
I am relatively new to having an EV. We were advised to get a Zappi charger as we had solar panels already. This may seem like a dim question, but I am not sure if I am understanding correctly. My query is as follows: We are on the Intelligent Octopus go tariff and therefore get rates of 7.5p/kWH in the night. We have a…
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MSE News: Hive admits some users can't connect their electric vehicle chargers to its app
Smart home tech provider Hive has admitted it's aware of a problem that's seen some customers unable to connect their electric vehicle (EV) chargers to the Hive app. While you CAN still charge your car if you're affected, you CAN'T use the app's features, such as scheduling to charge your car when it costs less. The fault…
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Huawei Luna Battery Fusion Solar app settings help needed
Hello, I would really appreciate some help please. I think there is something wrong with my battery settings (5kW luna) Here is a photo of the settings. The PV system was set up for electricity to go to my iBoost first then house then battery, then export. Please can someone tell me if these settings are correct as my…
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Solar panel quotes
Hi all, I have been exploring solar panels and received multiple quotes and whittled it down to 3. I am looking to get 3 panels on my south roof and 7 on my east as it's the maximum I can fit on. Quote 1 - 10 JA Solar 435w with 10 Enphase microinverters. 4100kwh generation per year. £7k cost all in. Quote 2 - 10 Trina 410w…
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Solaredge Battery Settings
Hi, Does anyone happen to know how to get access to the more sophisticated battery settings as shown in this document ...https://knowledge-center.solaredge.com/sites/kc/files/storedge_charge_discharge_profile_programming.pdf All that I see are three simple options, Time of Use, Maximise Self Consumption and Manual Control.…
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LG 10kW DC coupled Battery for £4K installed - ideal for SolarEdge PV only systems
https://spgrenewables.com/products/aa9a136 I'm not one to tout batteries, mainly due to the poor return on investment for households importing <4k kWh per year but at £4K installed (including Modbus & hardware), this seems like a very attractive price for an DC coupled LG battery. SolarEdge will honour warranties for all…
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Solar PV with microinverters
Any other companies apart from Heatable that offer solar PV with microinverters?
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Save on toilet roll (Women only) save £70 a year with wipes
I got so annoyed by not being able to buy recycled toilet paper in paper (not plastic) wrapping, that I made my own from old brushed cotton sheets. I'm using 20cm squares for wee ONLY and just adding them to the normal wash. I am buying toilet paper so seldom now and I worked out that it's saving me about £70 a year. It…
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Solar I boost problems
I have a solar I boost that reads ' water heating off' then the sun will come out and read 'heating by solar 0.00kw then will switch to 'how water tank hot' even though the water is cold. Had the thermostat and element checked and all is fine. We are still exporting, but does this sound like a faulty I boost issue. Very…
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Solar from Octo pus
Hi, Had a quote from Octo pus for solar. 13 panels (JA Solar 435w) 13 micro inverters (enphase 360w) 2 enphase batteries 5kw and bird kit. Around 12k Does the above sound reasonable and would 360w inverters be OK with 435w panels? Also, they are not doing physical surveys, just remote. I wanted panels on front (5hrs sun)…
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Expanding Solar Array
Has anyone gone about expanding their solar array recently? I'm thinking of adding additional panels to my garage in a possible 4+3 split. My current system is an Enphase IQ7+ micro-inverter (20) coupled with Givenergy AC and a DNO export limit of 8.8KVA. But I rarely hit 5.5KVA export. Am I correct in thinking this should…
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First feed in tariff on solar PV. If we move house can we keep the income ? Or sell on the system ?
Hi - in the next couple of years we are thinking of moving to France. We have a the first solar PV feed in tariff which gives us just over 70 pence per KWH generated. Its a 4kw system so gives us just shy of £3k tax free per year at the moment. My questions are.... would anyone buy our tariff ? We did used to get letters…
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Solar panel advice
Considering solar panels as we are doing double storey extension which have scaffolding. Have got an estimate from Joju but it seems rather expensive: System Specification17 x Aiko 465W N-Type ABC, 54 Cell, Black Frame, Gen 2Solis S6 6.0kW 2MPPT Inverter 1PHOn-roof mounting systemPeripherals includedScaffolding Not…
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How can extra Solar Battery save £
So, I have a PV system with a 4kwh battery. The inverter is set to charge the battery during cheap rate tariff time between 0400 and 0700. The cheap rate is 10p per kwh. The normal rate is 25p per khw So my battery charges to 100% by 0700 Assuming my battery is used for load demand , from 0700 onward, does this mean the…
